DB-EnginesExtremeDB: mitigate connectivity issues in a DBMSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Immudb vs. KairosDB vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Immudb vs. KairosDB vs. TypeDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#295  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  Object oriented DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbtypedb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.heavy.aidocs.immudb.iokairosdb.github.iotypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.CodenotaryVaticle
Initial release20162016202020132016
Current release5.10, January 20221.2.3, April 20221.2.2, November 20182.28.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languagePythonC++ and CUDAGoJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like syntaxnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrano
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSynchronous replication via raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
More information provided by the system vendor
BigchainDBHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022ImmudbKairosDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
» more
Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
» more
Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
BigchainDBHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022ImmudbKairosDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Recent citations in the news

BigchainDB • • The blockchain database.
4 February 2016, bigchaindb.com

Using BigchainDB: A Database with Blockchain Characteristics
20 January 2022, Open Source For You

Blockchain Database Startup BigchainDB Raises €3 Million
27 September 2016, CoinDesk

ascribe announces scalable blockchain database BigchainDB - CoinReport
13 February 2016, CoinReport

7 blockchain firms join Bosch led GAIA-X consortium for vehicle identity - Ledger Insights
13 September 2022, Ledger Insights

provided by Google News

HEAVY.AI Launches HEAVY 7.0, Introducing Real-Time Machine Learning Capabilities
19 April 2023, Business Wire

Big Data Analytics: A Game Changer for Infrastructure
13 July 2023, Spiceworks News and Insights

HEAVY.AI Partners with Bain, Maxar, and Nvidia to Provide Digital Twins for Telecom Networks
16 February 2023, Datanami

Making the most of geospatial intelligence
14 April 2023, InfoWorld

The insideBIGDATA IMPACT 50 List for Q4 2023
11 October 2023, insideBIGDATA

provided by Google News

Codenotary brings its immutable database to the cloud
21 June 2023, TechCrunch

ImmuDB and Codenotary: It's a database, but the company isn't
20 December 2021, ZDNet

Immudb: Open-source database, built on a zero trust model
17 December 2021, Help Net Security

How Open-Source Database immudb Plans to Handle All That Metaverse Data
10 October 2022, Acceleration Economy

immudb (immutable database) 'tamper-proof' database - Open Source Insider
14 December 2021, ComputerWeekly.com

provided by Google News

Real-Time Performance and Health Monitoring Using Netdata
2 September 2019, CNX Software

Expo: Real Time A/B Testing and Monitoring with Spark Streaming and Kafka at Walmart Labs
24 May 2019, InfoQ.com

provided by Google News

An Enterprise Data Stack Using TypeDB | by Daniel Crowe
2 September 2021, Towards Data Science

Spacecraft Engineering Models: How to Migrate UML to TypeQL
8 September 2021, hackernoon.com

Speedb Goes Open Source With Its Speedb Data Engine, A Drop-in Replacement for RocksDB
9 November 2022, Business Wire

Modelling Biomedical Data for a Drug Discovery Knowledge Graph
6 October 2020, Towards Data Science

How Roche Discovered Novel Potential Gene Targets with TypeDB
8 June 2021, Towards Data Science

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here